What keyboard is right for you? That’s the question that ExtremeTech is attempting to answer with this roundup of keystroke-input devices. Yes, that’s a three-word combination for keyboard. So sue me if I wanted to do a little wordplay. Anyway, there are five categories to choose from, namely: *
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The beta 1 version of Windows 7 is expected to be released on January. As expected, some players in the industry received a copy even earlier than that. Here’s a review of Windows 7 so far. That’s right, a review of a beta. It doesn’t occur often since beta
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Owing to, as Tom Lehrer would say, nepotism and intrigue, I found myself in the small town of Brenham, Texas, this Sunday on the very day that Apple’s iPhone was to go on sale at the Wal-Mart mega-chain (an outfit that I, as a native New Yorker, have had very little experience with).
Popping in to check out the action and snag some photos, I found a single iPhone display — it would be generous to call it a kiosk — with an activated iPhone and a handful of brochures. The price tags on display gave both the new customer/upgrade price, as well as the full retail price. A small paper sign taped to the wall announced that iPhone sales would commence at 9:00 am, and that customers should line up for access to limited stock.
I asked a sales clerk about first-day sales, and she said as far as she knew they hadn’t sold a single unit so far, “but maybe if they had started selling it before Christmas…” There was, however, a steady stream of gawkers checking out the display unit in the 10 or so minutes I spent in the electronics department.
Herewith some photos of the in-store Wal-Mart display:
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This post was updated at 9:41 a.m. PST with more details from Wal-Mart.
(Credit: James Martin/CNET Networks)Wal-Mart on Friday confirmed that it will be selling Apple’s iPhone 3G, beginning Sunday at about 2,500 stores. The price, with a new two-year service agreement with AT&T (or qualified upgrade), is $197 for the black 8GB model and $297 for the black or white 16GB version.
“We are delighted to bring customers this ground-breaking mobile technology,” Gary Severson, Wal-Mart senior vice president of entertainment, said in a statement. “Our electronics associates have been preparing for many weeks for the arrival of iPhone 3G.”
And some of them let the cat out of the bag a little early, as CNET News’ Marguerite Reardon noted several weeks ago.
The popular smartphones are currently available at Apple retail stores, AT&T stores, and at Best Buy, where the 8GB phone is sold for $199 and 16GB phones are sold for $299.
Wal-Mart’s iPhone offering amounts to two dollars in savings and negates, for now anyway, the rumored 4GB model that some had speculated Wal-Mart would sell for $99.
Wal-Mart will be staffing Apple iPhone 3G kiosks located in the Wal-Mart Connection Center in the store’s home entertainment department.
At first, I thought it was just me. Every time I saw another headline pop up, I kept telling myself that my fascination with gambling had just gone too far. When I realized, however, that it was really happening – and that talking to myself would probably land me in an asylum – I started telling others: “You know,” I’d say to some Armani-wearing blonde as she sipped a French martini in an Uptown lounge. “I work in the gambling.” And to my surprise, said blonde was usually intrigued.
We’ve reached the knockout phase of this year’s Champions League with few surprises in the overall schedule. Ten clubs from last year are again aiming for the title, while those who won’t be around to take another shot at it – AC Milan, Sevilla FC, Celtic FC, FC Schalke 04, Olympiacos CFP and Fenerbahce SK – have been replaced by a similarly mixed bag of contenders. Likewise, this year’s group stages were much of the same - except, of course, for Werder Bremen’s win over Internazionale, which still wasn’t enough to land them in the top two group qualifiers.
We’ve already seen a preview of how graphics will be for 2009. You can add two other things to look forward to next year and this time it’s in the netbook category: 3D gaming and HD. NVIDIA has announced plans to “pair Intel’s Atom processor with a real mobile
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Document writers will tell you that PDFs are very handy. It’s a widely-recognized format that has become the de facto standard for written technical solutions, manuals and even promotional material. Unfortunately, they’re quite a hassle to open. Every time you click on a PDF link online there’s a delay
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Let us thank YouTube, because not all of us have enough money to foot the electric bill for 54,000+ lights:
Merry Christmas dear readers!
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If you’re reading this post, set for publication after 6pm on December 24, 2008, then I have all the right in the world to ask what are you doing online?!
Where I come from, we party on Christmas Eve. Even those who’ve got work during the day disconnect from everything else, and clear the night for a night of alcohol, debauchery, and gift-giving!
So I suggest you do the same now. Stop straining your eyes, stop staying on top of what’s happening on the internets. Stand up and leave the computer (you are of course, welcome to download torrents, since they don’t need your direct supervision anyway). Give yourself a break now, especially since you’ve probably got no work tomorrow. Enjoy your Christmas Eve!
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